St John Ogilvie Primary School

All the children have settled in so well this week and have been exploring all the different activities in the classroom. We have read lots of stories about starting school and made self portraits to display in the area. We have learned all about our school rules and mascots and we were very excited to take part in our first assembly. It was lovely to spend time with our P7 Buddies on Friday and we can’t wait to see them again!

Miss Stebbing

What a beautiful week it has been!  As a result, we have managed to complete lots of our learning, outside in the fresh air.

At the beginning of the week the children learned about the first moon landing, they then went on to write fantastic newspaper reports about it and created brilliant pieces of art!

On Thursday, we were learning about ordinal numbers.  The children made their own paper aeroplanes and then we went outside to see how far they would fly.  We used ordinal numbers to place them from 1^st to 23^rd.  Riley’s aeroplane came in first place, with Laura’s a close second!

Our pupil of the week was Jack who has been exceptionally kind this week and has been trying hard with his work.

Here are a few of the children’s learning highlights:

Jack – I loved learning about the first moon landing.

Rory – I enjoyed learning about the artist Van Gogh and making a sunflower picture.

Aadya – I like making the paper aeroplanes and flying them outside.

Vivien – I enjoyed making medals for Sports Day next week.

Grace – I liked colouring the ice cream cones for maths.

We have an exciting week lined up next week with both Sports Day and Fun Day happening in the same week!  Hopefully the weather will continue to be kind to us.

Hello P2B families!

Here are our highlights from the Red table:

Amy liked hearing the story of ‘Moses and the Burning Bush’.

Emily-Ann really enjoyed playing in our new restaurant role-play.  The children worked hard on Monday to set up our role-play area.  The majority vote was a restaurant and again the majority voted for the name ‘Mama Mia’.  They worked in groups to design the shop sign and menu.  They decided what drinks, food and dessert would be served and how much it would cost.  We looked at examples of a menu to get ideas on layout and prices.

Reesa loved when we launched rockets that we made outside as part of our learning about Space.  Hers came 3^rd place within her group.

Aaron said the best part of his week was PE where they played parachute games!

Isabella enjoyed outdoor learning.

Georgia-Rose liked learning about the artist, Van Gogh.  Mrs Devlin showed the children 12 paintings from her Van Gogh calendar.  They voted for their favourite ones to make up our classroom Van Gogh gallery.  During Choosing Time, the children were welcome to try and copy one of the paintings but next week we are going to learn how to sketch then paint the famous bedroom painting.

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part of the week was a lovely relaxing massage I received from Maya who built her own massage table today in the block play area.  Thank you Maya!  It was just what I needed.

Congratulations to Isabella  our Hot Chocolate award winner for this week and to Georgia-Rose, our Reading Champion.

On Monday, we went on a school trip.  We went to Muiravonside Country Park and it was so much fun!  We went on a bus and we were split into three groups.  Group 1 went pond dipping first, Group 2 went bug hunting first, and Group 3 went on a walk first.  Then, we swapped activities over the course of the day.  The walk was fun and we saw animals, we heard birds and the river, and we could smell the flowers.  We could also feel the hot air, which made us very sweaty!

Last week, Mrs Brown told us that her mum had mailed a package of bee things to show us.  We were so excited and today we got to see them.  We saw the glue the bees make (propolis), four bees (one drone and three worker bees), and two queen cells.  We also saw beeswax made into comb with a squashed bee on it (we didn’t like this part).

In maths, we looked at 2D and 3D shapes, co-ordinates and angles.  We went outside and in groups of three, we used string to make different angles.  We used chalk to draw the angle on the ground and then we identified them as right angles, acute angles or obtuse angles.  We also did a different task outside, where we had to follow Mrs Brown’s directions (using compass directions, turns and angles).  It was like a treasure hunt (but with no treasure L) and we went to different locations by following her directions.  We ended up outside P4a’s classroom- maybe they were the treasure?

In writing, we planned a recount about our trip and then we wrote it up.  We had to include powerful verbs, past tense, conjunctions, an introduction, a conclusion and write our events in time order.

Highlights:

Millie: I enjoyed learning about bees because we all got to see the bee things that Mrs Brown’s mum sent.

Ashley: I enjoyed the school trip because I liked the activities especially pond dipping.

Matteo: When I heard I was going on a school trip to Muiravonside Country park, I was determined to do different fun activities and the ones we did were very active and I loved seeing the different types of nature as well as the insects’ and animals’ lives.

Jude: I enjoyed the school trip because I liked doing pond dipping because it was the first time I had ever done it and it was cool.  My highlight was lunch because we got to play at the park and my least favourite thing was the bus ride back because we had to go back to school and it was roasting.

Well done to Mariam, our hot chocolate winner.

Have a lovely weekend everyone,

Mrs Brown

Hi everyone,

Another busy week for us!

We started off the week with some multiplication and division recap, then applied these to different word problems collaboratively.

In Literacy, we have been consolidating our critical skills by exploring different adverts and discussing what could be missing by asking questions. We then created our own adverts for the brands but whilst ensuring they were more inclusive and had more focus on the product being sold.

Our class highlight was voting in the class awards. We came up with the different categories for the end of year awards. The votes have been counted and we will find out on Monday who won what!

Well done to Sophia who won our class talent show. She beautifully played the keyboard. She will now go through to the P6/7 area auditions with the chance to go to the final in the last week.

Marcus won the hot chocolate this week, well done!

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss MacGregor

Thank you to everyone who came to our Fairyland Showcase this morning. We had lots of fun doing all the activities with our helpers. Mrs Russell and Miss Stebbing were so proud of us and we got a treat for being Awesome Ogilvies.

Another busy week exploring our rights. This week we started discussing refugees. What is a refugee, why do people leave their homes/countries to move somewhere else. We explored, Article 10 (family reunification) Governments must respond quickly and sympathetically if a child or their parents apply to live together in the same country. If a child’s parents live apart in different countries, the child has the right to visit and keep in contact with both of them. We also investigated, Article 22 (refugee children) If a child is seeking refuge or has refugee status, governments must provide them with appropriate protection and assistance to help them enjoy all the rights in the Convention. Governments must help refugee children who are separated from their parents to be reunited with them. Both of these childrens rights link with Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions which states thatRefugees and displaced persons are in need of protection and access to basic human rights. The root causes of displacement are human rights violations, risk of persecution, conflict, poor governance and loss of livelihoods. We discussed the types of things they would have to quickly pack to carry if they became a refugee.

On Tuesday we watered, weeded and tidied up the gardens and the trees that we planted earlier in P5. Our trees are beginning to look lovely like little trees instead of twigs in the ground. Hopefully they will continue to grow well.

On Wednesday we gathered data on our tally chart which we used to draw bar graphs. We also dug out our lovely potatoes. Unfortunately our carrots need a little more growing time.

In RE  we have been learning about Prophets (messengers from God)

Thursday was an amazing day we cooked the potatoes we grew in the fire pit. They tasted delicious. We also had yummy marshmallows and hot chocolate. We sung some songs and had fun toasting our marshmallows. We then played in the woods, climbing tree, making animal shelters and fairy homes. Later on we started sketching nature around us. In the afternoon it was back to work watering, planting and weeding the gardens at the front of the school. One of the best days in Primary 5 most of the children agreed. Hope everyone has a lovely weekend.